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347 commentaries, Updated on 21 Jan 2025

Africa’s economic rise is a world-changing development, but the sources of its emerging strength – and lingering weaknesses – are little understood. W…

  1. Pascal Lamy, et al. The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap
  2. Hippolyte Fofack Trump Can’t Stop De-Dollarization
  3. Adekeye Adebajo What Trump’s Return Means for Africa
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77 commentaries, Updated on 16 Dec 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the conflict in Gaza following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel.

  1. Dennis Ross Will Stability Rise from the Middle East Rubble?
  2. Daoud Kuttab Trump’s Middle East Challenge
  3. Richard Haass A New Chance for the Middle East
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134 commentaries, Updated on 30 Dec 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the issues and trends shaping the biggest global election year in history.

  1. Ngaire Woods A Politics of Hope Is Our Best Hope
  2. Sergei Guriev AI Has Not Yet Destroyed Democracy
  3. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Three Cheers for Namibia’s First Female President
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147 commentaries, Updated on 11 Dec 2024

To celebrate International Women’s Day, Project Syndicate is highlighting a selection of insightful commentaries written by female contributors on iss…

  1. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Three Cheers for Namibia’s First Female President
  2. María Fernanda Espinosa Did COP29 Fail Women?
  3. Xianghong Wang The Second Glass Ceiling for Women
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39 commentaries, Updated on 3 Jan 2025

In Finance of the Future, Project Syndicate, with support from Circle, brings together leading experts, innovators, regulators, and more to examine th…

  1. Carl Manlan, et al. Fintech Must Embrace Universal Inclusion
  2. Andrés Velasco Crypto’s Unholy Choir
  3. Andrew Gallucci The Dollar Diplomacy We Need
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108 commentaries, Updated on 9 Jan 2025

As former Irish President Mary Robinson and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu pointed out nearly a decade ago, “climate change is a matter of ju…

  1. Thiago Barral, et al. What Climate Justice Means for Latin America and the Caribbean
  2. Mohammed Usrof, et al. Ban Solar Geoengineering
  3. William Ruto A New Deal for Developing Countries
Putin's War on Ukraine

482 commentaries, Updated on 14 Jan 2025

Russia has failed to achieve the quick victory in Ukraine for which it apparently hoped, but a prolonged war of attrition would amount to a different …

  1. Anders Åslund Putin’s War Is Fueling Russian Stagflation
  2. Daniel Gros Is It the Hour of Europe Again?
  3. Slavoj Žižek Fundamentalist Perverts
The Light Bulb

62 commentaries, Updated on 13 Jan 2025

In The New Enlightenment, Project Syndicate, in partnership with The New Institute, brings together leading experts, academics, practitioners, and pol…

  1. Yana Gevorgyan AI Alone Won’t Save the Planet
  2. Mariana Mazzucato Collective Intelligence and the Common Good
  3. James Livingston Two Cheers for Identity Politics
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63 commentaries, Updated on 15 Jan 2025

Activists, campaigners, and other experts consider how to support freedom, justice, and human dignity globally.

  1. Lilian Coral, et al. Texas’s Online Age-Verification Law Must Be Overturned
  2. Helen Prejean An Injustice That Biden Can Still Set Right
  3. Gordon Brown Gender Apartheid Is a Crime Against Humanity
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133 commentaries, Updated on 23 Jan 2025

PS commentators consider how to seize the opportunities and mitigate the risks created by artificial intelligence.

  1. Dambisa Moyo Three Reasons Why AI’s Momentum Could Stall in 2025
  2. Philippe Aghion, et al. What AI Means for Growth and Jobs
  3. Sylvain Duranton, et al. Europe’s CEOs Must Speak Up on AI Regulation
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288 commentaries, Updated on 21 Jan 2025

Project Syndicate commentaries on the growing threats to liberal democracy, open societies, and the rule of law around the world.

  1. Joschka Fischer Trump at the Gates
  2. Koichi Hamada Will US Democracy Survive Trump?
  3. Jan T. Gross An American Catastrophe
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138 commentaries, Updated on 16 Oct 2024

Today’s media landscape is littered with landmines: open hostility from illiberal and autocratic regimes, mounting censorship in countries such as Hungary, Turkey,…

  1. Katrin Kivi The Case for Press Freedom Just Got Stronger
  2. Geoff Mulgan The Right to Truth
  3. Nishant Lalwani, et al. As Disinformation Thrives, Democracy Dies
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    Decommodify Electricity

    Jayati Ghosh shows why the market cannot mobilize the clean-energy investments needed to accelerate the green transition.
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    Three Reasons Why AI’s Momentum Could Stall in 2025

    Dambisa Moyo

    While artificial intelligence has the potential to drive global growth and boost productivity, the industry is grappling with mounting challenges like soaring development costs and energy requirements. Meanwhile, investors are questioning whether AI investments can deliver meaningful returns.

    identifies three negative trends that could stifle innovation and slow the pace of technological progress.
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    Solving India’s Industrialization Puzzle

    Rabah Arezki & Partha Sen ask why, unlike Bangladesh and Vietnam, manufacturing has not benefited from rising labor costs in China.
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    Ensuring Europe’s Supply of Critical Minerals

    Rüya Perincek & Andreas Goldthau call for coordinated funding, resource diplomacy, and secondary material partnerships to boost recycling.
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    Readying the Resistance, Again

    Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca

    The United States is not a monarchy, but a federal republic. States and cities controlled by Democrats represent half the country, and they can resist Donald Trump’s overreach by using the tools of progressive federalism, many of which were sharpened during his first administration.

    see Democrat-controlled states as a potential check on Donald Trump’s far-right agenda.
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    Russia’s Nostalgia Machine

    Nina L. Khrushcheva explores how the Kremlin relies on an idealized version of the past to comfort – and subdue – the public.
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    The Trade Shifts Redefining Economic Development

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg & Michele Ruta consider the long-term implications of three major trends that could reshape globalization.
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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.

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